James Taylor
@wagnerian79.bsky.social
'There is a God! And he's a gag-writer!'
Richard Wagner Society.
Titanic Historical Society.
Member of general human society (reluctantly)
Richard Wagner Society.
Titanic Historical Society.
Member of general human society (reluctantly)
Time for the traditional Sunday Shosty*.
(*Traditional from hereon)
(*Traditional from hereon)
November 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Time for the traditional Sunday Shosty*.
(*Traditional from hereon)
(*Traditional from hereon)
I'm a vinyl fan but some of the pricing for this stuff is a bit ridiculous... I know it's all remastered and on high quality 180g vinyl, but still...
(I got the 1979 New Years Concert discs for a fiver at Notting Hill)
(I got the 1979 New Years Concert discs for a fiver at Notting Hill)
November 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I'm a vinyl fan but some of the pricing for this stuff is a bit ridiculous... I know it's all remastered and on high quality 180g vinyl, but still...
(I got the 1979 New Years Concert discs for a fiver at Notting Hill)
(I got the 1979 New Years Concert discs for a fiver at Notting Hill)
RIP Sir Donald McIntyre, my first Wotan.
Wotan's Farewell from Wagner's Die Walküre (musical motifs)(Boulez, McIn... youtu.be/Avfl8pokNLk?...
Wotan's Farewell from Wagner's Die Walküre (musical motifs)(Boulez, McIn... youtu.be/Avfl8pokNLk?...
Wotan's Farewell from Wagner's Die Walküre (musical motifs)(Boulez, McIntyre and Jones)
YouTube video by cragarrows
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
RIP Sir Donald McIntyre, my first Wotan.
Wotan's Farewell from Wagner's Die Walküre (musical motifs)(Boulez, McIn... youtu.be/Avfl8pokNLk?...
Wotan's Farewell from Wagner's Die Walküre (musical motifs)(Boulez, McIn... youtu.be/Avfl8pokNLk?...
Blinding Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet suites from Järvi (senior) and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
open.spotify.com/album/0Khi02...
open.spotify.com/album/0Khi02...
Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet Suites
open.spotify.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Blinding Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet suites from Järvi (senior) and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
open.spotify.com/album/0Khi02...
open.spotify.com/album/0Khi02...
This week I 'ave been mostly listening to Shostakovich.
open.spotify.com/album/1OwYNl...
open.spotify.com/album/1OwYNl...
Shostakovich: The Piano Concertos; Solo Works
open.spotify.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
This week I 'ave been mostly listening to Shostakovich.
open.spotify.com/album/1OwYNl...
open.spotify.com/album/1OwYNl...
Shosty's String Quartets make a fine evening.
open.spotify.com/album/2KKcrs...
open.spotify.com/album/2KKcrs...
Shostakovich: The String Quartets
open.spotify.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Shosty's String Quartets make a fine evening.
open.spotify.com/album/2KKcrs...
open.spotify.com/album/2KKcrs...
So there's a job going at the BBC now I hear? Director General? 🤔
My cost saving proposal would be to scrap all the extra digital channels and just introduce one to replace them:
BBC Wagner.
(And NOT with Titchmarsh presenting)
My cost saving proposal would be to scrap all the extra digital channels and just introduce one to replace them:
BBC Wagner.
(And NOT with Titchmarsh presenting)
November 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
So there's a job going at the BBC now I hear? Director General? 🤔
My cost saving proposal would be to scrap all the extra digital channels and just introduce one to replace them:
BBC Wagner.
(And NOT with Titchmarsh presenting)
My cost saving proposal would be to scrap all the extra digital channels and just introduce one to replace them:
BBC Wagner.
(And NOT with Titchmarsh presenting)
In one of those 'must listen to Prokofiev and Shostakovich ' kind of moods. We all get them.
open.spotify.com/album/2Uwmsy...
open.spotify.com/album/2Uwmsy...
Shostakovich: Symphony No.5 / Prokofiev: Romeo And Juliet - Suite No.1
open.spotify.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
In one of those 'must listen to Prokofiev and Shostakovich ' kind of moods. We all get them.
open.spotify.com/album/2Uwmsy...
open.spotify.com/album/2Uwmsy...
Why have I not listened to Sinopoli's Tchaikovsky 6 until now?!
open.spotify.com/album/7jfcGk...
open.spotify.com/album/7jfcGk...
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6 "Pathétique"; Romeo and Julia - Fantasy Overture
open.spotify.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Why have I not listened to Sinopoli's Tchaikovsky 6 until now?!
open.spotify.com/album/7jfcGk...
open.spotify.com/album/7jfcGk...
More wonders from Giulini. A splendid way with Debussy and Ravel.
open.spotify.com/album/1BEpiC...
open.spotify.com/album/1BEpiC...
Debussy: La Mer & Nocturnes - Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte & Alborada del gracioso (Remastered 2025)
open.spotify.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
More wonders from Giulini. A splendid way with Debussy and Ravel.
open.spotify.com/album/1BEpiC...
open.spotify.com/album/1BEpiC...
As the shops have already started playing Christmas music guess it's not too early to start becoming obsessed with this again 😁
November 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
As the shops have already started playing Christmas music guess it's not too early to start becoming obsessed with this again 😁
Very impressed with Stage+. The sound quality is better than Spotify, even listening to both on Lossless Stage+ comes out best.
November 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Very impressed with Stage+. The sound quality is better than Spotify, even listening to both on Lossless Stage+ comes out best.
People in the office looking at me strangely as I air conduct... 😟
November 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
People in the office looking at me strangely as I air conduct... 😟
Giulini's Bruckner is truly something special....
November 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Giulini's Bruckner is truly something special....
Giulini's Bruckner 9 now on Dolby Atmos via Stage+. If only I had a Dolby Atmos system to hear it on.... but a good excuse to listen to this classic again!
www.stage-plus.com/audio/album_...
www.stage-plus.com/audio/album_...
Enjoy Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, WAB 109 | STAGE+
Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, WAB 109 by Wiener Philharmoniker, Carlo Maria Giulini ✓69 Min ✓Dolby Atmos ➤ Listen now on STAGE+!
www.stage-plus.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Giulini's Bruckner 9 now on Dolby Atmos via Stage+. If only I had a Dolby Atmos system to hear it on.... but a good excuse to listen to this classic again!
www.stage-plus.com/audio/album_...
www.stage-plus.com/audio/album_...
The quality of these restorations stills astonishes me (as do the performances themselves!).
Great box set full of glories.
Great box set full of glories.
November 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The quality of these restorations stills astonishes me (as do the performances themselves!).
Great box set full of glories.
Great box set full of glories.
Tchaikovsky died OTD 1893.
My 'gateway drug' into music (although I'm rather embarrassed to say I was most obsessed with the 1812, which I listened to almost daily🙄). Then I discovered the symphonies and everything changed forever...
open.spotify.com/album/6Sm5Su...
My 'gateway drug' into music (although I'm rather embarrassed to say I was most obsessed with the 1812, which I listened to almost daily🙄). Then I discovered the symphonies and everything changed forever...
open.spotify.com/album/6Sm5Su...
Tchaikovsky: 6 Symphonies
open.spotify.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Tchaikovsky died OTD 1893.
My 'gateway drug' into music (although I'm rather embarrassed to say I was most obsessed with the 1812, which I listened to almost daily🙄). Then I discovered the symphonies and everything changed forever...
open.spotify.com/album/6Sm5Su...
My 'gateway drug' into music (although I'm rather embarrassed to say I was most obsessed with the 1812, which I listened to almost daily🙄). Then I discovered the symphonies and everything changed forever...
open.spotify.com/album/6Sm5Su...
Leipzig Opera House, 1976.
November 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Leipzig Opera House, 1976.
Strange to see Peterborough (where I now live) and Huntingdon (where I used to live) both headline news. I just wish it were for a better reason. Sympathy and solidarity to all affected. Stay safe out there.
November 2, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Strange to see Peterborough (where I now live) and Huntingdon (where I used to live) both headline news. I just wish it were for a better reason. Sympathy and solidarity to all affected. Stay safe out there.
Karajan recording Meistersinger in Dresden, 1970.
November 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Karajan recording Meistersinger in Dresden, 1970.
Nice poster from www.richard-wagner-shop.de/en/index
(Ignore the blu tac marks, it will be cleaned up!)
(Ignore the blu tac marks, it will be cleaned up!)
October 31, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Nice poster from www.richard-wagner-shop.de/en/index
(Ignore the blu tac marks, it will be cleaned up!)
(Ignore the blu tac marks, it will be cleaned up!)
Once if you wanted to listen to the Ring at home you had to get through 16 LPs, or sets of several operas in one box set could be 18 or 19 records, really heavy box sets.... Wagnerites in the 60s and 70s must've been truly hench 💪
October 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Once if you wanted to listen to the Ring at home you had to get through 16 LPs, or sets of several operas in one box set could be 18 or 19 records, really heavy box sets.... Wagnerites in the 60s and 70s must've been truly hench 💪
Groß Glück und Heil lacht nun dem Rhein,
da Hagen, der Grimme, so lustig mag sein!
Götterdämmerung in Leipzig, 1976. (Dir: Joachim Herz)
da Hagen, der Grimme, so lustig mag sein!
Götterdämmerung in Leipzig, 1976. (Dir: Joachim Herz)
October 29, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Groß Glück und Heil lacht nun dem Rhein,
da Hagen, der Grimme, so lustig mag sein!
Götterdämmerung in Leipzig, 1976. (Dir: Joachim Herz)
da Hagen, der Grimme, so lustig mag sein!
Götterdämmerung in Leipzig, 1976. (Dir: Joachim Herz)
The Monday Film - a Herzog classic, possibly his masterpiece. You're not a real opera fan until you've hauled a ship over a mountain in the Andes to fund the building of an opera house. (And playing as a tribute to dear Claudia C.)
October 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The Monday Film - a Herzog classic, possibly his masterpiece. You're not a real opera fan until you've hauled a ship over a mountain in the Andes to fund the building of an opera house. (And playing as a tribute to dear Claudia C.)